Waterways & Ways Home
Casey Fisher
See it On Campus: Level 1
In the hallway beside the elevators, to the right as you exit the elevator.
Visitor InfoAn exploration of water, place, and connection by Casey Fisher
How did I get here? And how do I get home?
For the last four years, my body of work has been growing and evolving as I try to answer this question. Where do I belong when I feel like I belong in so many places? While using art as an outlet to work through this problem, a pattern emerged. Maps, water, geography, colour. Following this theme I started to see the answer in front of me; I can belong in any place that I feel connected to.
For the final piece of my degree, I wanted to encompass all of the places that I have felt the strongest connection to. I took inspiration from heatmaps to chart my own data, pinpointing all of the places that I belong along the body of water that has been a constant in my life, the Fraser River.
The Beginning
These paintings were the foundation of all of the work that follows. An interest in combining topographical maps and abstraction that led to an in depth exploration of geography, water, and the connections they forge.
Exploring abstraction, geography, and water as physical forms
Inspired by the turbulent and ever changing landscapes of the backroads that surround Quesnel, BC. Impacted every year by flooding, washouts, and climate change.
Water holds memories
Water holds memory. Shells hold, and are held by, water.
In turn, perhaps shells themselves hold these memories too.
Finding my way back
Memorializing a slowly eroding river fork that encapsulates my home. It’s unique intersection washing away each year due to spring flooding, returning each time to a state that is altered ever so slightly. But altered just the same.
Others & Their Places
Throughout this journey to find my place through art, I have had the pleasure of helping others find theirs. Below are some paintings of places beloved by others.
Where do I go from here?
Each piece I create builds more connection, brings more clarity, and solidifies my sense of place and belonging.
I can only hope to expand on those connections and continue to develop new ways to hold on to them.
